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- After respective months of delay, the Nigerian authorities has announced that it volition wage the backlog of the caller N77,000 monthly allowance for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
- Legit.ng recalls that the authorities announced the allowance summation successful September 2024, but contempt aggregate assurances, the summation has yet to beryllium implemented
- Ayodele Olawande, the curate of younker development, stated that the authorities would wage the N77,000 allowance to some serving corps members and those who were successful the programme erstwhile the summation was archetypal announced
Legit.ng journalist, Ridwan Adeola Yusuf, has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering politics, elections, and governance.
FCT, Abuja - The national authorities connected Monday, March 24, assured members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) that the backlog of their newly-approved N77,000 monthly allowance volition beryllium paid.
Legit.ng reports that the assurance comes amid months of delay.
Speaking connected Channels Television’s 'Politics Today', monitored by Legit.ng, curate of younker development, Ayodele Olawande, reaffirmed the Bola Tinubu's medication committedness to fulfilling its committedness to corps members.
Olawande said:
“The backlog, we volition enactment connected it and marque definite it is paid. It whitethorn not beryllium immediate, but it volition happen. You saw the caller DG (Olakunle Nafiu) saying that you volition get it, and they’re asking him a question ‘What are those that are going retired now, are they going to person it (backlog)?’ He said we person your details."Recall that the authorities successful September 2024 announced an upward reappraisal of corps members’ allowance from N33,000 to N77,000, aligning with the nationalist minimum wage (Amendment) Act 2024. However, six months aft the announcement, Corps members are yet to person the caller pay.
Last week, NYSC boss, Brigadier General Nafiu, assured corps members that payments would statesman successful March. Olawande corroborated this, emphasising that administrative and budgetary processes were liable for the delay.
The curate explained:
“I’ve explained this respective times. Some radical accidental I ever say, ‘It is simply a process.’ But it’s earnestly a process. It was not successful the fund erstwhile the president announced it, and for immoderate agencies and parastatals, you request your wage to beryllium successful the fund earlier it is paid."Furthermore, the curate noted that indispensable approvals person present been secured.
He said:
“The budgetary allocation has been done. We are done with the process, it has been approved, it has been signed, and present they tin commencement paying it."Read much NYSC-related news:
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Why NYSC delayed N77k caller allawee
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the NYSC blamed backing for the hold successful paying corps members the caller N77,000 allowance.
The NYSC attributed its inability to commence outgo of the allowance to corps members connected deficiency of “cash backing.”
NYSC spokesperson, Caroline Embu, stated this successful effect to a media inquiry.
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Source: Legit.ng
